Saturday, December 22, 2012

Dunno ’bout you, but The High Command here at The
United Provinces of Ivanlandia doesn’t like Xmas, or any of the rest of the
Holiday Season.

Too many crappy things happen.

It’s a time that feels more haunted and forlorn than
Halloween.

This year, we got the Secret Police to cancel the High
Command’s visit to the Royal Palace, but the Brain in a Jar had a meltdown and dinner
feels like lead in your guts and everything sucks and it seems like all your
efforts are for naught.

"Today on the 4:30 Movie, Godzilla Vs. Cthulhu!"

That was my original idea for the title of this blog, a sort of summation of nearly everything I'd ever wanted cinematically: regularly playing on the ABC Channel 7 4:30 movie--or on WOR-TV Channel 9's 4 O'Clock Movie--the greatest monster movie in the universe, and incredible combo of miniatures, men in suits and stop motion, with entire continents destroyed!

But then there was a coup d'etat, and Tzar Ivan I of Ivanlandia took charge.